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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1932 on: May 30, 2023, 08:45:04 AM »
I got to know some neighbors fairly well at times in Cincy, and coworkers a bit, I was often surprised how little they would know about "current events".  They'd comment they didn't have time or they found it boring to pay attention to the news.  Their stated reasons for voting for X could be interesting, usually it was the LOTE theory, based often on some rumor being passed around.
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« Reply #1933 on: May 30, 2023, 09:26:06 AM »
Guard/Defensive End Curt Merz who played in 92 games for Dallas/KC from 1960-1968...

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« Reply #1934 on: May 30, 2023, 09:26:55 AM »
LOTE = lesser of two weevils

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1935 on: May 30, 2023, 09:43:16 AM »
LOTE = lesser of two weevils
Oh, duh. I should have figured that out. 

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« Reply #1936 on: May 30, 2023, 01:58:52 PM »


The group that played what became my favorite jazzy music piece ever, but they were always on break it seemed.

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« Reply #1937 on: May 30, 2023, 02:31:09 PM »
"Suddenly, without a word of warning, the report of a pistol shot rang through the room and then another..."
It was the 25th anniversary of Nebraska's admission to the Union on May 26, 1892. The Lincoln Hotel visitors were enjoying their "morning repast" when William H. Irvine fatally shot Charles E. Montgomery, president of the German National Bank of Lincoln, for having an affair with his wife.
Five months later, he was tried for Montgomery's murder in Lancaster County District Court. How did the court proceed? https://history.nebraska.gov/murder-at-the-lincoln-hotel.../
📷: Lincoln Hotel, 143 N 9th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, circa 1900.


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« Reply #1938 on: May 31, 2023, 07:08:09 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Johnstown Flood Kills 2,209 (1889)
When the South Fork Dam near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, collapsed after several days of heavy rains, it sent 20 million tons (18.1 million cubic meters) of water cascading downriver at speeds of 20–40 mph (30–60 km/h). Less than an hour after the breach, a 30-foot (9-m) wall of water smashed into Johnstown, killing more than 2,200 people. The American Red Cross's response was one of its first major disaster relief efforts.
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« Reply #1939 on: June 01, 2023, 08:04:45 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Mary Dyer, Boston Martyr, Hanged for Being a Quaker (1660)
Dyer was an English Quaker who was hanged in Boston after repeatedly defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. Her death and those of the three other "Boston Martyrs" led to the easing of anti-Quaker laws in Massachusetts.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #1940 on: June 01, 2023, 10:21:10 AM »


I have a hard time thinking I'd want to be there.

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« Reply #1941 on: June 01, 2023, 10:32:51 AM »
maybe when I was in my teens or twenties

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« Reply #1942 on: June 01, 2023, 12:52:21 PM »

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« Reply #1943 on: June 02, 2023, 07:32:59 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Bare-Knuckle Fighter Dies After 99-Round Fight (1833)
In 1830, bare-knuckle prizefighter Simon Byrne, Ireland's heavyweight boxing champion, fought Alexander McKay, the "Champion of Scotland," for the right to challenge England's heavyweight champ. McKay died of a head injury shortly after losing the lengthy fight, and Byrne was charged but later cleared of manslaughter. Three years later, Byrne fought England's champion, James Burke. After 3 hours and 99 rounds, Byrne was knocked out. He died days later.
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« Reply #1944 on: June 02, 2023, 08:57:24 AM »


Downtown ATL ca. 1962 ... Peachtree Street.  

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« Reply #1945 on: June 02, 2023, 09:07:37 AM »
62 was a good year

maybe not for wine, but.......
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